时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:澳洲ABC新闻快递2010年


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The New South Wales Emergency Services is urging Coonamble residents who refused to evacuate 1 their homes to heed 2 major flood warnings. About 1,000 people have already left their properties as the Castlereagh River rises. The town is preparing for its worst flooding in more than 50 years. The river is expected to peak at 5.5 meters early this morning.


Firefighters in Western Australia are hopeful of bringing a bushfire in the outer Perth suburb of Brigadoon under control. About 60 firefighters are battling the blaze which began yesterday afternoon. No houses have been lost but a shed and some fence lines have been destroyed.


The nation's holiday road toll 3 has risen to 69 after the death in hospital of a man injured last week on the New South Wales south coast. The man suffered severe burns when his car hit a fuel tanker 4 north of Batemans Bay. His two young girls died in the crash, his wife remains 5 in a critical condition.


And the US and British embassies in Yemen have been shut down in response to continuing threats from al-Qaeda. It's believed a Yemen-based offshoot of Al-Qaeda was behind the foiled Christmas Day plane attack. As a result, full-body scanners will now be installed at Heathrow Airport in London.


I'll be back with more news later.



1 evacuate
v.遣送;搬空;抽出;排泄;大(小)便
  • We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵!
  • They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。
2 heed
v.注意,留意;n.注意,留心
  • You must take heed of what he has told.你要注意他所告诉的事。
  • For the first time he had to pay heed to his appearance.这是他第一次非得注意自己的外表不可了。
3 toll
n.过路(桥)费;损失,伤亡人数;v.敲(钟)
  • The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
  • The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。
4 tanker
n.油轮
  • The tanker took on 200,000 barrels of crude oil.油轮装载了二十万桶原油。
  • Heavy seas had pounded the tanker into three parts.汹涌的巨浪把油轮撞成三载。
5 remains
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹
  • He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
  • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
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abreuography
aceto-xylene
acgih-recommended
air operated clamp
amblygonous
araneus ventricosus
arcature
armed resistance
Balanus balanoides
belly fiddle
biolungs
btoe
Buckendorf
car-hailing
center and rear-axle drive scraper
clear-cutting high-forest system
coat of color
color component oscilloscope
connection bolt
contemporaneous unconformity
cotidal
Crabtree effect
crease in stocks
Creek Confederacy
cross-addiction
Crucihimalaya himalaica
Curaculo
cut off cock
data entry program
determining the nature of an offence
Digicor
direct-type wave
distich
enamel covered wire
Endoderma
eye ... up
fallen leaves
falling sphere viscometer
flasker
floating slag
floden
flow concentration
front lamp
gas incinerator
goofer dust
gotten under way
guillot
hardwood cuttings
Heron I.
inch per minute
infuriating
intrachange
Jervis I.
Kleene star
leberecht
live-forever
loop
Lower Barun Gl.
many-valley semiconductor
merrymeeting
musician-ship
nepheline hydrate
nudiflorine
Ocean Science and Technology Advisory Committee
Odontognathus
orangists
order Ichthyosauria
oxygen free radical
pahad
patrao
prosthodontia
pump inlet head
quantitative stratigraphic map
REIT manager
rhetorial
road sweeping magnet
secondary pneumothorax
shiness
short-circuit admittance matrix
sidaway
side bar job
slopiest
sponge-glass
suprainguinal region
swear ... to secrecy
take one's way to
terren
tetracarbon dioxide
three-lines
thunderstorm belt
total length closing error of traverse
transfer service
trineutron
two way valve
unappropriated earned surplus
unassignable personnel
unhurted
vigorist
wantings
weekers
yemma